New APIs in 2026

340 APIs launched on Product Hunt between January 3, 2026 and October 22, 2026, collecting 46,493 upvotes between them. The most upvoted is Context.dev, with 794.

146 of them (43%) have a working website on file, and 19 come from Y Combinator companies. Every launch below links to the makers behind it.

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Top APIs, by upvotes

The 15 most upvoted API launches since January 2026.

  1. Context.dev

    1. Context.dev

    794 upvotes

    One API to scrape, enrich, and extract the internet

    Context.dev is the web context API for AI products and agents. Scrape any URL, crawl sites, turn pages into LLM-ready Markdown, extract structured data into your own schema, capture screenshots, and retrieve logos, colors, fonts…

    #1 on July 2, 2026YC S26context.dev2 makers, 2 with emails
  2. Plurai

    2. Plurai

    732 upvotes

    Vibe-train evals and guardrails tailored to your use case

    Vibe training for AI agent reliability. Describe what your agent should and should not do — Plurai generates training data, validates it, and deploys a custom model in minutes. It feels like vibe coding, but for evaluation and guardrails.…

    #1 on April 29, 2026plurai.ai8 makers, 8 with emails
  3. Anything API

    3. Anything API

    645 upvotes

    Any website. We deliver the API.

    Many websites don't have public APIs. Anything API fills that gap. Turn any browser work into a production-ready API. Describe the task, and our agents build a custom function that calls the site directly. Ship a custom API endpoint you…

  4. Publora

    4. Publora

    634 upvotes

    A publishing API for agents to post on 10 social platforms

    Publora is a publishing API for 10 social platforms. One REST API call handles multi-network distribution — no SDKs, no OAuth wiring. The native MCP server with 18 tools gives AI agents like Claude and Cursor a full engagement loop: post…

    #1 on June 10, 2026publora.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  5. Jev

    5. Jev

    595 upvotes

    Fast, structured AI decisions for software automation

    Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One frontier model: unstructured state in, typed probabilistic decisions out. Instead of generating text, Jev returns Choice, Score, and Noul answers with calibrated probabilities your code can act on. Parallel…

  6. Claude Opus 4.7

    6. Claude Opus 4.7

    552 upvotes

    Claude’s most capable model for reasoning and agentic coding

    Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic’s most advanced generally available AI model, built for complex reasoning and agentic coding. It handles long-running tasks, follows instructions precisely, verifies outputs, and delivers high-quality results…

    #1 on April 17, 2026claudeopus.app
  7. ExploreYC

    7. ExploreYC

    551 upvotes

    Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data

    One open-source API for startup data across Y Combinator AND a16z - 6,600+ companies with funding, stage, IPO/M&A exits, and founders. Filter by VC (yc/a16z/all), batch, industry, country, or search. Grab a free API key, read the docs…

    #1 on July 8, 2026exploreyc.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  8. Browse.sh

    8. Browse.sh

    507 upvotes

    Give your agents muscle memory for automating the web

    browse.sh — an open catalog of browser automation skills for any website. Find reusable SKILL.md recipes that teach AI agents to complete tasks online, and install them with the browse CLI.

    #2 on June 8, 2026browse.sh1 maker
  9. Monid

    9. Monid

    490 upvotes

    OpenRouter for agent tools

    We connect your AI agent to 1,800+ APIs without any subscriptions. SEO, lead gen, video/music generation, social media, stocks, market trends, on-chain data, competitor tracking, sentiment analysis, all unlocked with one key.

    #1 on September 2, 2026monid.ai4 makers, 4 with emails
  10. GPT-5.5 by OpenAI

    10. GPT-5.5 by OpenAI

    458 upvotes

    OpenAI's smartest and most intuitive to use model yet

    GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model yet, designed to handle real-world work with greater autonomy, speed, and efficiency. It excels at coding, research, data analysis, and task execution — planning, using tools, and iterating with…

  11. Humalike x Hermes

    11. Humalike x Hermes

    449 upvotes

    Social intelligence plugin for Hermes Agent

    One command gives your Hermes agent social intelligence. It decides when to speak, adapts to your group's tone and remembers who said what. Works in group chats on Slack, Telegram and WhatsApp.

  12. Humalike

    12. Humalike

    445 upvotes

    Give your AI agents the social intelligence they're missing

    Today's models are capable enough. Smart enough. Fast enough. But we still feel they don’t fit in the room. Humalike is building the behavioral infrastructure for humanlike AI agents. The social skills & proactiveness your agents have…

    #2 on July 1, 2026humalike.com1 maker
  13. Monospace from Directus

    The governed API layer for every app, person, and agent

    Monospace sits between enterprise data and everyone who builds on it. Connect any data source, and your developers, business teams, and AI agents get live, read-write access to it. All under the same granular permissions model, with no…

    #1 on October 1, 2026monospace.io21 makers, 20 with emails
  14. Swytchcode CLI

    14. Swytchcode CLI

    439 upvotes

    Give agents reliable access to 2,000+ APIs w/ durable state

    Write agent logic, and skip the plumbing. Give AI agents reliable access to 2,000+ APIs with retries, idempotency, policy enforcement, and durable state.

  15. akta.pro

    15. akta.pro

    417 upvotes

    Private company data and signals API for the agent economy

    Private company data with 4x the depth and 2x the coverage of PitchBook, plus 100+ event signals and news across companies, industries, and topics. Source and diligence deals or make outreach lists and trigger outbound. Built for…

Best APIs by month

A ranked list for every month with at least a handful of API launches.

Latest APIs

  1. Mercury 3

    Mercury 3

    112 upvotes

    The diffusion LLM that scaled 40x without slowing down

  2. Kugel Ear

    Kugel Ear

    80 upvotes

    Speech-to-text that only asks when it's unsure

  3. Mouse-1

    Mouse-1

    103 upvotes

    A decision model for your agent harness.

  4. Exa 3.0

    Exa 3.0

    189 upvotes

    Smarter search that gives AI agent richer data at lower cost

  5. Rusteerio by Context.dev

    Keep your Cheerio code. Make it faster.

    #26 on October 19, 20261 maker, 1 with an email
  6. Pomerado

    Pomerado

    177 upvotes

    Turn any website into an API; Faster & reliable browser use

    #5 on October 16, 2026YC F26pomerado.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  7. Nudgebox

    Nudgebox

    56 upvotes

    Send push notifications without building an app

  8. Dreamscale Labs

    Dreamscale Labs

    80 upvotes

    Run the best robot AI models over the cloud

    #23 on October 15, 2026YC F26dreamscalelabs.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  9. Lokutor

    Lokutor

    21 upvotes

    Voice AI on speech foundation models we train ourselves

  10. Pushie

    Pushie

    6 upvotes

    Get notified when something happens

  11. API Claws by Buda

    Build self-improving agent harness with one API

  12. Zernio

    Zernio

    332 upvotes

    Marketing infrastructure for products and agents

    #2 on October 9, 2026zernio.com1 maker, 1 with an email

Launches by month

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Questions

How many APIs launched on Product Hunt in 2026?
340, between January 3, 2026 and October 22, 2026: 3% of every launch Junior tracks. The busiest month was June 2026, with 43.
Which APIs got the most upvotes?
Context.dev ("One API to scrape, enrich, and extract the internet") leads with 794 upvotes, ahead of Plurai (732) and Anything API (645).
How are launches put in API?
By the first topic the makers chose on Product Hunt. A launch sits in one category on Junior, so the counts here never double up.
How do I contact the makers of these APIs?
Each launch links to its page on Junior, with the founders and makers behind it. Junior has 359 makers on file in API. Their work emails, LinkedIn and X profiles come with a subscription.

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